Arab World

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    • A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
    • By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

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    • Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
    • By: Fawaz A. Gerges
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
    • By: Avi Shlaim
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished.

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 670 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
    • By: Ian Black
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today....

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    • By: Wilfred Thesiger
    • Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds....

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    • An Insider's Guide to Living and Working with Arab Culture
    • By: Rana Nejem
    • Narrated by: Rana F. Nejem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This book is a practical map that will help you understand the people and demystify the culture of the Arab world - the beliefs, values and social structures that determine how business is conducted and how things are done....

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    • Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
    • By: David Rundell
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • David Rundell - one of America's foremost experts on Saudi Arabia - explains how the country has been stable for so long, why it is less so today, and what is most likely to happen in the future....

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    • By: Bassem Youssef
    • Narrated by: Bassem Youssef
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World" chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and more....

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    • By: Albert Hourani
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises...

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    • By: P.C. Wren
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Series: Beau Geste, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • The world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage, and treachery....

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    • Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
    • By: Tom Segev
    • Narrated by: James Boles
    • Length: 28 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967....

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    • The Landmark Library, Book 13
    • By: Justin Marozzi
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the seventh and eighth centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula....

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    • Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised Edition
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In this monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism....

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    • By: John McHugo
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The concise history reveals how the Arab world came to have its present form, why change was inevitable and what choices lie ahead following the Arab Spring....

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    • How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    • By: Jonathan Lyons
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Here is the story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West....

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    • Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 27 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature...

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